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Because it's getting harder and harder to be amazed by the latest in Hadouken! technology, try a more Fantastic Arcade: a free four-day Fantastic Fest offshoot storming The Highball with 20 indie games that eschew traditional graphical one-up-manship in favor of experimental mechanics and downright irreverent concepts, like Jesus going back in time to kill Creationism-contradicting dinosaurs. No really, there's a game about Jesus killing dinosaurs. Some other bizarre button-mashers:

Deep Sea: Developed locally, the player dons a blacked-out gas mask and noise-canceling headphones, creating a supposedly terrifying sensory-depriving experience where audio cues help you target monsters drawn by the sound of your own breath, then quickly repulsed by the smell of your own breath.

Radical Fishing: More fun with underwater friends: snag as many exotic sea creatures as possible (with the help of upgrades like fish-frying toasters and chainsaws), then once you've withdrawn your line, take aim with a firearm, and blast the fish as they're flung into the air!

Lost Mars: From ATX vets who worked on iconic titles like Thief and Splinter Cell, Mars follows a jet-packed space explorer who aims to piece together an alien civilization by reviving their horticulture, giving his green thumb to little green men.

Octodad: In this third-person adventure, guide a suit-n-tied octopus masquerading as a human father through a gauntlet of everyday tasks that are infinitely more complicated thanks to having tentacles, which truly would suck.

Skulls of the Shogun: Harking back to 16-bit graphics, Skulls lets you lead an undead samurai general (mustachioed, of course) and his team of mercenaries in search of a mythical collection of...skulls, although not crystal skulls, as that'd be a little too Indy.

For those who wear their pocket-protectors on their sleeves, Fantastic is holding an Ultimate Warrior Nerd contest in which the geekiest submitted yearbook picture earns a kingly prize pack and the title of Official Arcade Mascot, an honor that might've previously been decided by means of Street Fight.

Because it's getting harder and harder to be amazed by the latest in Hadouken! technology, try a more Fantastic Arcade: a free four-day Fantastic Fest offshoot storming The Highball with 20 indie games that eschew traditional graphical one-up-manship in favor of experimental mechanics and downright irreverent concepts, like Jesus going back in time to kill Creationism-contradicting dinosaurs.